A once free
United states has become an "us" versus
"them" society. Similar to the early Hitler
years in Germany (burning of the Reichstag = Waco
massacre) with touches of Stalinist horror (extermination
of the "kulaks.")

The late Gary
Allen (of None Dare Call It Conspiracyfame) used
to cite Nelson Rockefeller's habit of terming Americans
"peasants." But Gary had no idea how far
elitist contempt for the "peasants" had gone
even in the late 1960's.

Compare Waco
with Somalia. The FBI and BATF used tanks to destroy
Koresh and his followers. The U.S. deliberately used
tanks against American citizens.

In Somalia the
U.S. sent in Rangers and U.S. troops without armored
backup although assaults without tanks and self propelled
artillery are doomed to failure. The White House threw
away 7 American lives using McNamara "rules of
engagement" in Somalia. In Waco the
"rules of engagement" concept was thrown out
the window.

Disregard for
American life is emphasized in domestic use of biological
warfare against American citizens. Part of the
story was in Phoenix Letter(November 1992.) This
described Congressional approval for U.S. Army
development of an artificial AIDS virus in 1970.
This shocker is part of a larger story.

Here's
another installment of the domestic biological
warfare story:

U. S.
Army-CIA jointly used biological agents against
American citizens inside the U.S.

These
agents included: bacillus subtilis,
smallpox and AIDS.

The Federal
Government has concealed then lied about these programs
and placed the blame elsewhere, including the former
Soviet Union.

State Department
attempted to counter an exaggerated Soviet propaganda war
using these programs but tripped up because State did not
know how much authentic information had leaked inside the
U.S.

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Fort Dietrich
BiologicalPrograms In The 1960's

Fort Dietrich in
Maryland is the U.S. biological warfare base. Originally called
U.S. Army Biological Laboratories it is now labeled U.S. Army
Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)

The Army maintains a
Special Operations Division (SOD) on the Fort Dietrich base with
a formal operating agreement with CIA (Memorandum signed in May
1952.) Both CIA and Army have covered their tracks well but some
original documents survive to outline a horrific story.

In the early 60's U.S.
Army SOD personnel used specially designed suitcases to spray
unsuspecting American civilians with bacillus subtilis at the
Greyhound Bus Terminals in Washington, Chicago and San Francisco.
Similar operations were conducted at airports in Washington D.C.,
New York, Boston and Los Angeles. The number of one way tickets
sold at time of release was used to estimate distribution of the
bacterial agents. (Bacillus subtilis can be bought at
biological supply houses. It is not listed as a pathogen, but can cause respiratory infections, blood
poisoning and food poisoning.)

According to
declassified Army documents the Greyhound terminals in San
Francisco and Chicago were the location for "six operatives
to launch covert attacks" spread over 7 days. Specially
designed suitcases sprayed bacteria into crowded terminals for
maximum exposure. Photographs were taken and other Army personnel
"covertly collected air samples in close proximity to the
passengers" to determine if the civilians had been infected.
(See photographs)

Later tests were
repeated with smallpox a2ents, grown in large quantities
and converted to a lethal powder for spraying. Senate
investigation in 1975 revealed close cooperation between SOD and
CIA:

"CIA
association with Fort Dietrich involved the Special
Operations Division (SOD) of that facility. This division was
responsible for developing special applications for
biological warfare agents and toxins. Its principal customer
was the U.S. Army. Its concern was with the development of
both suitable agents and delivery mechanisms for use in
paramilitary situations. Both standard biological warfare
agents and biologically derived toxins were investigated by
the division."

The Senate Committee
found the CIA had covered its tracks to conceal this
unconstitutional activity from the American public. The
Senate Committee stated "Although some CIA originated
documents have been found in the project files it is clear
that only a very limited documentation of activities took
place."

An
extract from a U.S. Army report details why smallpox
was selected as the agent of choice." Its
"attractive" features are listed as:

1.
Smallpox is highly infectious with close contact.
It spreads readily from an infected person to
susceptible individuals.

2. A long incubation
period of relatively constant duration permits the operatives
responsible to leave the country before the first case is
diagnosed

3. The duration of
illness for those who recover is relatively long. Although
the Federal Government claims that the 1972 treaty banning
biological weapons stopped further use of Fort Dietrich we
know that the U.S. Amy applied for $1.4 million appropriation
to EXPAND germ warfare testing ability in the early 1980's.
Senator James Sasser objected and it is unlikely that the
appropriation went through. It could have been handled on the
"black budget."

THE
ORIGINATOR OF AIDS

In July 1969 Dr.
MacArthur, Director of the U.S. Army Advanced Research Project
Agency (ARPA) appeared before Congress (the Appropriations
Committee of the House) and stated:

" within a period of 5-10
years it would be possible to produce a synthetic
biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist
and for which no natural immunity could have been
acquired."

This synthetic anent
is AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome virus or HIV-1)
ARPA requested $10 million to develop AIDS, 10 years before the
virus was identified in the field.

Dr. MacArthur added,
"It is a highly controversial issue and there are many who believe such
research should not be undertaken lest it lead to another method
of massive killing of large populations."

From 1961 to 1968 while
this artificial biological agent was under discussionin the pentagon, Robert McNamara was
Secretary of Defense. Clark Clifford (of BCCI notoriety) took
over as Secretary in 1969.

On October 2, 1970 just
15 months after Dr. MacArthur requested an apl2rol2riation for
AIDS development, Robert McNamara, now World Bank President,
made a speech to international bankers in which he identified
population growth as "the gravest issue that the world faces
over the years ahead."

In his speech to the
bankers McNamara argued that population growth was leading to instability,
that a 10 billion world population would not be
"controllable."

Said McNamara, "It
is not a world that any of us would want to live in. Is such a
world inevitable? It is not sure but there are two possible ways
by which a world of 10 billion people can be averted. Either the
current birth rates must come down more quickly or the current
death rates must go up. There is no other way."

In brief, Robert
McNamara was in the final decision making role for development of
AIDS at the very time he was contemplating the idea that
"world death rates must got up." THIS IS MORE THAN
COINCIDENCE.

Our conclusion is that
Robert McNamara knowingly encouraged development of AIDS as a
means to reduce the worlds' Population. It is difficultto arrive at any other Conclusion.

New From Russia

Slowly bits and pieces
of hidden history are leaking from Russia. Official U.S. history
is that the U.S. was fighting only Vietnamese in Vietnam. It now
appears Soviets were there as well, fighting U.S. Soviets
had casualties, so far 16 admitted killed in action.

This explains the heat
this editor came under with National Suicide: Military Aid To
The Soviet Union. A detailed criticism of ourtechnological
aid to the Soviet Union while the Soviets were aiding the
Vietnamese kill Americans. No wonder we came under so much
pressure to keep quiet! Our big businessmen were actively
committing treason! If the Soviets were fighting in Vietnam,
then the Soviets were an active enemy, not a passive onlooker.

Henry Kisssinger and
Robert McNamara won't look too good in the light of history when
the full story comes out. The Best Enemy Money CanBuy
is still available from Liberty House Press 1-800-343-6180.
(It's a rewrite and update of the original National Suicide:
Military Aid To The Soviet Union which caused a storm 20
years ago.)

Soviet
Union Charges Pentagon With Aids Development

This information became
known to the Soviets and in October 1985 the Soviet Union mounted
a world wide propaganda campaign. Aids had been manufactured at
Fort Dietrich Maryland by the Pentagon. The initial information
was planted in a Soviet backed newspaper in India and then
surfaced in more than 30 media sources world wide. The report was
backed by an East German report by Professor Jacob Segal of
Humbolt University, East Berlin. Segal argued that the AIDS virus
is "the product of an abortive experiment carried out at a
laboratory to develop biological warfare means."

This Soviet propaganda
campaign was discounted in the West (this Editor included.) It
was beyond the realm of rationality that the U.S. would develop a
killer agent such as AIDS.

Professor Segal appears
to hold the view that it was "accidental" i.e. an
"abortive experiment." This position we also held for a
while, until the McNamara speech of October 1970 surfaced.

In any event in the late
80's the U.S. State Department ran a rebuttal campaign to the
Soviet charges. However State was unaware that the Congress had
published Dr. MacArthur's requests and statements so the rebuttal
fell flit on its face. The State Department for example claims
the U.S. Army had never used Fort Dietrich as a biological
warfare base. This is just not true. Further State apparently had
no knowledge of the McNamara contemplation of rising death rates
by design.

Conclusions

1. CIA - U.S. Army
undertook field tests with bacillus subtilis and
smallpox against American civilians.

2. There is no
question that the Army received funds from Congress for AIDS
development and this was probably undertaken at Fort
Dietrich.

The AIDS release
could have been accidental but we discount this for several
reasons. Initial cases came from Africa and Haiti, not the
United States. Second, Robert McNamara had simultaneously
called for increase in world death rates. This suggests a
deliberate policy of controlled release of the AIDS virus.

3. The Soviets
obtained the information and used it for a propaganda
campaign.

The State Department
rebuttal was ineffective because State had no idea how much
information had already been made public.

Postscript

Phoenix Letterhas
reported a new string of AIDS virus, much tougher, much more
dangerous and possibly airborne. In early 1990 Sciencereported that AIDS researcher Dr. Robert Gallo had tested
an altered AIDS virus, one that could infect' cells
previously left uninfected by the early AIDS strain. This new
strain was reported as infecting epithelia] cells thus
raising the possibility that the AIDS virus is now airborne.

We find it
extraordinary that any risks are taken today, after the Cold
War has ended with these agents. What is the rationale in
developing stronger- airborne strains?

ROBERT McNAMARA
AND ENVELOPMENT OF AIDS

December Phoenix
Letterwe described how the U.S. Army (ARPA) developed the
AIDS virus with ten million dollars voted by Congress in 1969.

The Secretary of Defense
at that time, and responsible for approval of the 1969-1970
budget, was Robert McNamara, followed by Clark Clifford of BCCI
notoriety. The final decisions for the AIDS program was made
by McNamara and Clifford.

The standard biography
of Robert McNamara Promise and Power (The life and time of
Robert McNamara) by Deborah Shapley (Little Brown, Boston 1993)
has interesting comments on the McNamara view of world over
population and the critical need to reduce world population
i.e. an excellent rationale for development of a virus resistant
to cure.

In 1966 McNamara warned
that world population was growing faster than gross national
product and that the World Bank had a dominant role to play.

In 1969 McNamara's
speech to the Governors of the University of Notre Dame cited the
population explosion as more significant than the danger of
nuclear war. "Casting its shadow over all this scene is
the mushrooming cloud of the population explosion" (page
480).

McNamara extended the
extraordinary thesis that "the children who were dying were
fortunate, for the millions of those who lived languidly on were
stunted in their bodies and cripples in their minds."

Shapley points out that
inside the World Bank these McNamara views on population sounded
almost nutty" and many wondered where McNamara had gotten
these ideas.

But this was precisely
the time when McNamara moved from Secretary of Defense to take
over the World Bank. The same year, 1969, when the U.S. Army
went before Con2ress to ask for $10 million to develol2 an AIDS
virus.

By 1973 (page 5 1 0)
McNamara had steered the World Bank to explore the cycle of
overpopulation, insufficient food and poverty and in the Fall of
1973 at the annual meeting of World Bank Governors in Nairobi,
Kenya outlined his QUANTITATIVE GOALS for population.
"Nairobi" became synonymous with the McNamara
population reduction five year plan. Coincidentally
Nairobi and Kenya became initial focal points for the AIDS virus.
Kenya and Uganda in East Africa is where the epidemic began and
where today some 50% or more of the population is infected.

In 1977 McNamara spoke
at MIT and argued that world population was exploding at an
unacceptable rate. McNamara was so intensely carried away with
the ideas of population explosion that he reportedly (at a lunch
meeting) started to scribble numbers on the dining room table
cloth, "there was no stopping his verbal torrent or his
emotion." The table cloth was tinged with scribbled numbers
and "looked like an artifact left by an ancient visitor from
another world." (page 560)

The Shapely book has a
great deal more on the McNamara fervor to control world
population. While development of an AIDS virus may appear to most
of us as tragically even murderously wrong, to a ideologue like
McNamara it would appear to be opportunity to solve what he saw
as potential disaster.

Matching the time frames
and the opportunities for decision making there is a least a
prima facie case, well worth investigating, that Robert
McNamara knowingly and deliberately encouraged development of the
AIDS virus.

Phoenix Letterviews
the McNamara program, continued by Clark Clifford, as
genocide.

Dr. Monteith was one of
the very first to recognize the significance of AIDS and has
devoted over 20 years of his life to investigation and warning
about the dangerous nature of the disease to everyone. We
distinctly remember meeting with Dr. Monteith as far back as 1981
when he prophetically laid out to this Editor the epidemic
potential in AIDS. This long before even African Governments had
recognized the killer potential.

This book, excellently
written and produced, contains Dr. Monteith's conclusions and is
far in advance of other AIDS books simply because he is well
aware of the elitist nature of world control. The neglect of
government and politics to face up to the disease and its
implications is clearly outlined and we are left with the
question is this deliberate neglect to destroy the United States?
Although Dr. Monteith does not touch on the documentary evidence
published in Phoenix Letterconcerning the roles of U.S.
Army (Fort Detrich) and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (indeed
this would be irrelevant for the medical approach) Dr. Monteith's
evidence is entirely consistent with the argument that there is deliberation
in the spread of AIDS.

More surprising we learn
in great detail how the Gay Lobbies are insistent in policies and
actions that encourage the epidemic.

You will read that
Congressmen Panetta (Clinton Cabinet) and Congressman Waxman of
Los Angeles are associated with policies that promote the
epidemic. How American Medical Association, Centers for Disease
Control, and the Surgeon General attack any doctor who dare
propose monitoring or controlling the disease. The numbers of HIV
infected are just not known, they are mere crude underestimates
because Government refuses to adopt procedures that would give us
a realistic count.

For your personal
protection we urge you to read this book. It will be a harsh dose
of realism to counter the propaganda pap issued by Government and
AIDS lobbies.

AIDS Was
Deliberately Created By the United States Government

AIDS is a synthetic
biological agent, knowingly and deliberately created by
the United States Government. Development funds were not included
in any secret "black budget," they were openly voted on
by Congress.

In 1969 Department of
Defense representatives appeared before the Defense Subcommittee
of the House and requested $10 million in 1970 DOD Appropriations
for design and manufacture of a synthetic AIDS virus.

Specifically, on
Tuesday, July 1, 1969, Dr. MacArthur of the Army Advanced
Research Project Agency made the following statement to the
Subcommittee:

"There are
two things about the biological field agent I would like
to mention. One is the possibility of technical surprise.
Molecular biology is a field that is advancing very
rapidly and eminent biologists believe that within a
period of five to ten years it would be possible to
produce a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does
not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity
could have been acquired."

MacArthur later
submitted more detail to the Congressional Committee. The key
points were:

1. Up to
this point, (1969) all biological agents are
naturally occurring.

2. It is
possible to make a "new infective
micro-organism" that would be "refractory to
the immulogical and therapeutic processes upon which we
depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious
diseases."

3. A
research program would take six years and $10
million.

4. The
program should be initiated through the National
Academy of Sciences-National Research Council
(NAS-NRC).

5. The
matter was discussed with NAS-NRC and "tentative
plans were made to initiate the program.

The report
added:"It is a
highly controversial issue and there are many who believe
such research should not be undertaken lest it lead to
another method of 'massive killing of large
populations."

By 1972, the World
Health Organization called on scientists to work on such
viruses "to see if viruses can in fact exert selective
effects on the immune function." (WHO issupposedlydevoted
to "health" progress and financed in part by the
U.S. taxpayer on this supposition. SeeBulletin of World
Health Organization, 1972, 47:257-63.)

Dr. Theodore Strecker, a
health care consultant, has tracked the story of AIDS through WHO
and collaboration with U.S. Army Laboratories in Fort Detrick,
Maryland (now National Cancer Institute.)

Apparently, the AIDS
virus was released in Uganda, Haiti, Brazil and Japan about
1972-74. This was not an accident. It was deliberate release.
(See Who Murdered Africa by William Campbell Douglas, M.D.,
P.O. Box 1568, Clayton, GA 30525.) AIDS entered the United States
through the New York Blood Center/Centers for Disease Control in
the late 1970's.

In conclusion, we note
that Congress knowingly,voted funds for this development
program in the 1970 Appropriations.

Source: United States
House of Representatives. Subcommittee of the Committee on
Appropriations 91st Congress, 1st Session, Department of
Defense Appropriations, for!970, Part 5 Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, HB 15090. JULY 1. 1969,
Chairman Robert Sikes of Florida.

A REPORT ON THE ABUSE OF
POWER

Editor: Anthony C.
Sutton March 1994 Vol. 13, No.3

AIDS
Epidemic Cover Up

HIV-AIDS is a
virtually out of control epidemic with government
officials and gay lobbies jointly imposing censorship to
hide the true picture from the American public.

Half a dozen
books have emerged in recent months which tell similar
stories: gay lobbies control AIDS policy and only
interested in preserving rights, whatever happens to the
rest of America.

Because of their
united lockstep, political power gays dominate the AIDS
political scene. Gay rights have absolute precedence over
public health.

There is
disturbing evidence that the virus is transmitted by more
than sexual contact and blood. It is certainly carried by
(one testing procedure is based on saliva) and may be
airborne. Initial experiments demonstrate airborne
capability. Government officials dominated by gays refuse
to follow up with research on these initial findings,
because the gay lobby fm monitoring and quarantine.
Right now AIDS has the potential to wipe out the world
but is treated as an infectious disease. Doctors
cannot routinely monitor, test and report, they are
restricted by official limitations not applied to other
infectious diseases.

We attach a list
of recent books well worth reading that spring the lid on
a criminally negligent policy. Some of our conclusions
from these books:

1. HOW
MANY AIDS CASUALTIES

Government has
no really accurate number of HIV-AIDS infections because
gay lobbies vehemently oppose any form of monitoring or
reporting. The latest government number of I million HIV
infections is guess work, this is a low end guesstimate.
But even official guesstimates are reporting 50 to over
100 million infected within five years.

Kenya in Africa
has 50-70% infection rates in cities, rates unknown in
the countryside. New York Timesreports Kenyan
hospital system overloaded, two AIDS patients to a bed,
many just placed in corridors.

Dr. Lorraine
Day, former surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital,
and outspoken critic of head-in-the-sand government
policies, states the epidemic has the potential
"to wipe out the world."

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Gay-lesbian
lobbies/outlets report much lower numbers than even the
government.

Example: San
Francisco Examiner-(19 January 1994) column
"AIDSWEEK," by Lisa M. Krieger, reports 339,000
"cases" in U.S. compared to the official 1 million,
itself low. The same column reports 3 million world wide
"cases," a more accurate figureis well over 10
million.

2. HOW CAN ONE
BECOME INFECTED?

This is where the
politics of HIV-AIDS becomes murky and public health abandoned
in favor of special interests. Back in 1981, San
Francisco and New York medical authorities determined that gay
bathhouses were killer institutions where the AIDS virus was
flourishing and passed through homosexual contact. Gay
organizations fought against closure, the bathhouses ultimately
closed only because their patrons were killed off one by one
by the disease.. Gays placed their civil rights ahead of public
health and paid the price. At this point, infection was limited
to gays.

Then the blood supply
became infected with the virus. Gays protested because blood
organizations bypassed gay areas for blood collection. By early 1980 it was generally thought that infection could only take
place sexually or through blood transfer.

Research into infection
routes was blocked by the gay lobbies. Dr. G. Johnson of Stanford
Medical Center, in 1988, determined that HIV could be
transmitted through the air. Dr. Johnson asked San
Francisco AIDS unit to request further research at the federal
level on airborne transmission.

SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL
HOSPITAL REFUSED TO PURSUE THIS LINE OF RESEARCH. Why? Because
S.F. General policy on AIDS is essentially influenced by active
gay lobbies who fear monitoring and quarantine. If AIDS is
determined as transmitted only by sexual contact and blood
supply, then proposals for quarantine can be fought off. However,
if AIDS can be passed through the air or through saliva then
the general population is placed at risk and public health
measures will be instituted to limitcontact. Gay
districts will be isolated. Restaurants and facilities employing
gays will be affected. Obviously the community, seen as the
source of HIV-AIDS, will face quarantine.

Similarly, gays have
always denied that the virus can be passed through kissin- i.e.
saliva and most doctors advise this is unlikely. Again, research
organizations have not investigated saliva transmission because
their policy is biased by gay organizations. When Phoenix
Letter advised its readers in 1993 to keep out of high priced
San Francisco restaurants, the item was picked up by the San
Francisco Chronicleand labeled hysteria.

What the Chroniclerefused
to report is that an AIDS test system manufactured by Saliva
Diagnostic System Inc. uses saliva as the vehicle for mass
testing. Rocky Mountain News(November 20, 1993)
reported that the company had a contract with a Hungarian health
organization to undertake the largest mass testing ever, using
its OMNI-SAL system at a Budapest rock concert. Saliva is used
for testing inHungary but in the United States is not
considered a means of transmission.

An obvious public health
measure, not undertaken at this date in 1994, is to determine the
parameters of HIV-AIDS infection.

Certainly, HIV-AIDS can
be passed through sexual contact, blood supply and contact,
saliva and urine. These are definitely established as
transmission routes.

'There is also
preliminary evidence that HIV-AIDS can be transmitted through
aerosol (coughing droplets) and can be airborne. The federal
government has been grossly negligent in this area. We suspect
that political pressure by gay lobbies has stilled the research.

Gay pressure is so
irrational in San Francisco that hospitals cannot putAIDS patients in separate waiting rooms to
prevent transmission of airborne diseases as tuberculosis, fataltoAIDS patients. Gays fear stigma of
isolation and rather accept the risk of possibly fatal infection
from tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.

This confusion of
civil rights withpublic health
is killing people and very few public health officials or
medical doctors have the guts to stand up and tell the truth,
that HIV-AIDS may possibly use numeroustransmission routes.

3. DOES HIV-AIDS
MUTATE'?

We are not dealing with
the same HIV-AIDS strains today that were encountered in the
early 1980's. The strains are tougher, mutate more easily and
even have afacility to convert antibodies (generated by
the body to fight off disease) into the virusitself i.e. convert the bodies defense
into AIDS allies.

This ability of the AIDS
virus toturn the tables on the human
immune system has never before been reported in any virus
or bacterium.

San Francisco
virologist, Dr. Jay Levy at University of California, who
discovered the phenomenon says, "This indicates onthe
molecular level how some viruses are able to learn to escape the
immune system."

This ability is
significant because it frustrates efforts to find an anti-AIDS
vaccine. The virus can quickly change the molecular make up of
its outer envelope.

This suggests we are
many years from an AIDS vaccine because researchers do not yet
know what the vaccine has to do to defeat the virus.

We are looking at 100
million infections within six years so the urgency is obvious, AT
LEAST TO PHOENIX LETTER, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS
STALLING ON RESEARCH.

As the virus originated
within the U.S. army laboratories it Fort Deitrick, Maryland, the
federal government at least owes its citizens the courtesy of
speedy cures. What we are getting is denial and double-talk.

This is only part of the
story we have uncovered. You won't get it from establishment
media simply because they are scared of creating panic. Our view
is that citizens would rather know and handle panic if and when
it comes. Historically, citizens have always performed to
higher standards than politicians expect.

What is urgently needed
is congressional hearings which are not influenced by gay
lobbies. Gay rights may have to be subordinated to overall public
health welfare in the interests of the majority. This statement
will probably bring vitriolic criticism upon the head of the
Editor but with 200,000 U.S. citizens dead and at least 1 million
infected, we have to make some tough decisions.

Recommended
Reading on the AIDS Epidemic

(1) Dr. Stanley
Monteith, AIDS: The Unnecessary Epidemic (Covenant House
Books, 1991.) Available from AIDS Book, 618 Frederick Street,
Santa Cruz, CA 95062, $17.00. Highly
recommended. Dr. Monteith first alerted this Editor to the
coining epidemic as far back as 1981 after Dr. Monteith returned
from a trip to Africa.

(2) Dr. William Campbell
Douglas, AIDS: WhyIts Much Worse Than They're Telling Us and How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved
Ones (1991.) Second Opinion Publishing Inc., Suite
100, 1350 Center Drive, Dunwoody, GA 30338, $20.00, postage paid.
DI-. Douglas also has a newsletter updating information on AIDS
and government misdeeds in medicine.

Every one of the above
books (except Carol Pogash) is published by a small publishing
house or is self published. Every one of them deserves widespread
distribution.

In the last decade the
New York publishing industry has shrunk. In January, Harcourt
Brace, a major New York house reduced its editorial staff to just
two editors. Self important New York publishing is suffering from
its own myopia, an incestuous industry rooted in establishment
thinking is filling rapidly, its place taken by small publishers
scattered around the United States.

Once all publishing was
centered in New York. The above AIDS books were published in
California, Georgia and Texas. The publishing aroma in New York
is so stifling, reflecting self important pompous editors, that
we rarely find a New York published book worthy of favorable
review. Gary Taubes Weird Science(Radon House, reviewed
in Phoenix Letter, December 1983) is typical of the trash
generated by old line once proud houses as Random House.

Book review: Carol
Pogash, AS REAL AS IT GETS (Birch Lane Press, New York,
1992.)

San Francisco General
Hospital is the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the United
States. This is the story of the political, medical and ethical
battle that has been fought at San Francisco General Hospital
over the past ten years.

This is a disturbing
account, how HIV-AIDS has generated a complex reaction of fear,
heroism, irrational behavior, and denial fought over the bodies
of dead and dying AIDS patients.

Here are a few
highlights we gleaned from Pogash:

* Nurse Jane
Doe was infected with AIDS while caring for patients
at S.F. General on the job occupational injury. The
City of Francisco tried for years to deny
compensation, bury its head in the sand. City Hill
didn't want to face the reality of the epidemic.

* Dr.
Lorraine Day, an orthopedic surgeon, smart, tough,
realistic, dedicated, was demonized by the gay
Community because she wanted to protect the medical
staff and the general public.

* Incoming
patients, about one quarter of whom have AIDS cannot
be routinely tested because the gay community
considers testing an infringement of their rights.
Anyone who points outthat non-gays also have rights
is viciously attacked.

* AIDS
policy is largely established by the gay communitythat places its own
interest first and foremost and to hell with the
general public, this in a city saturated"
with AIDS.

* Dr.
Lorraine Day, "The whole thing is politics.
If this had started out in
the heterosexual
community the disease would
be under control
... we've got two different things now, we've got
gay rights to have proper jobs, housing and all
that and we've got a deadly disease that can kill
the world, and the two are being mixed up."

* Dr.
Day was abused, threatened, harassed, EVEN
TARGETED FORATTEMPTED
MURDER BECAUSE SHE TOLD THE TRUTH. And she was
out there all by herself because no one at San
Francisco General would support her - even though
they knew the truth.

God Help Us!

Late
Press Note

Since writing,
above, we have heard from Dr. Johnson at Stanford Medical
Center. Dr. Johnson sent his research report on
aerosol/airborne transmission of the HIV virus. We will summarize for the April Phoenix
Letter.